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Its body is mainly black, around an I ch long and it has long translucent pinkish red antennae and four legs (at least I can only identify four legs)
I found it on my bed earlier and have been worried in case it is harmful in any way although I'm sure I'm being melodramatic!
Thanks in advance,
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Are you in the UK?
I wonder if it's the bone house earwig but it's rare here. See -
That's the one! Thank you very much Jaguarondi. No wonder I had such difficulty finding out what it was - I've tried to find other info now you've identified the species for me but there doesn't seem to be much more available. Have you any idea how to find out how prevalent they are in the UK? Oh, and to answer your question, yes, I'm in Oxford
Thanks again for your help!
On the second link I gave you (The Orthoptera one) there is a contact page. I suggest you email one of the organisers and ask their advice re the identification and whether the record is of interest. If you do, perhaps you can let us know.
Super, will certainly do so, thank you for the advice. I'll let you know the outcome.
Meanwhile, I've reaslied that the photo came out somewhat distorted so I am attaching some which you will hopefully be able to view properly.
Thanks again!
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Are you using Internet Explorer? Images do appear distorted on some sites with IE. Best to use Firefox or Chrome.
Thank you. Can you see the last 3 images ok?
Yes, they're fine, but so were the original ones for me (I use Firefox)
Hello both, thank you for this very interesting post. I agree that the photo in your first link, jaguarondi, looks just like Sarah's photos of her earwig. However, I think the link is probably labelled incorrectly, i.e. it is not a Bone-house earwig (Marava arachidis) but something else. Below are some scans from Marshall & Haes 1988 "Grasshoppers and Allied Insects" for Marava arachidis. The description does not fit your photos, Sarah, as your earwig has wings (the second set of yellow spots) and the colours are very different. So I don't think it is Marava arachidis, but I don't know what else it might be - I will try and find out. Best wishes, Bjorn (Grasshoppers and allied insects recording scheme).
Thanks for this Bjorn. I wasn't convinced by the ID of bone house earwing as the various images for it on the web seem so varied. If you can find out what it I would be interested to know.
Sarah, have you recently returned from a holiday abroad, and if so from where? That might help with the identification.
Or best of all, catch the insect!
Here is a summary of an email from Malcolm Lee:
"Those two spots on the elytra and the yellow wingtips seem distinctive. A quick search came up with this similar earwig, going by the name Doru albipes - http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/12/20/earwig-from-puerto-rico/. The website says it comes from the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
However, the first link [provided by jaguarondi above] is to a Turkish website, and the checklist for Turkish earwigs on the Earwig Research Centre also has three similar species http://www.earwigs-online.de/TR/tr.html: Either Anechura species, or Forficula smyrnensis. In the images of those dead specimens, the Anechura species have dark heads, whereas Forficula smyrnensis has a pale head. Sarah's images show a pale head, so Forficula smyrnensis might be a better bet.
However, it seems likely that if there is a similar looking species in the Caribbean, there are probably others in different parts of the world."
Hi Bjorn,Crumbs, yes, as a matter of fact we returned from holiday in Turkey a week ago today. The Forficula smyrnensis is definitely more closely matching tham any of the other ones in the pictures. In that case, it must have hopped into a suitcase or been lurking amounst some clothes and been packed! That makes sense now; great detective work thank you - and please thank Malcolm! Although I guess it is rather disappointing for you as it isn't a new found species in the uk afterall if it has just been accidentally brought over, so sorry on that count. I did set the traps as you suggested but no joy I'm afraid. Also I tried searching behind furniture and so on with a torch but again, no joy as yet. I take it that means the insect is no longer of use to you?
Thank you so much for all of your efforts,you've been really helpfeul. Thanks also to Malcolm Lee and to Jaguarondi who recommended you to me in the first place as someone who knows their stuff
All the best,
Well done Bjorn, that was interesting.
Well done everybody - good teamwork and interesting outcome.
Dear all,
Bjorn, your last post said 'better still, catch the insect'. Well, I don't have the original but it seems to have had some offspring; my husband just found a much smaller version of the one I found last week but this time in our bathroom. I have it in a container at the moment. What should I do with it????
Great, that's very good (and thank you for your interesting previous post). You could add a tiny bit of food for it into the container and post it to: Bjorn Beckmann, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB. Or if you prefer, I can pick it up in Oxford as I'll be there at the weekend - email me your address to firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 01491692564 as before. That should then give a certain identification hopefully - but it seems very likely to be Forficula smyrnensis. Many thanks! Bjorn
Hi, will give it a tiny bit of cheese (unless you recommend something else). This one is probably about half the size of the last but exactly the same in every other respect. I now have some great, clear photos and also a video of it - fascinating (although it is the first time I have ever really observed the behaviour of an insect so closely.
Should I give it water? The local nature group also want to see it - I thnk one of the people who run it is connected with the University; is this ok before you collect it? And what happens next?
Thanks Bjorn
as you already know Sarah - with the help of the specimen, Judith Marshall at the Natural History Museum London has now confirmed the identification of the earwig as indeed Forficula smyrnensis (female), as Malcolm Lee had suggested. It will be added to the collection of the Oxford Museum of Natural History for permanent storage.
Thanks again for this very interesting find, Sarah.
Thanks for the confirmation on this interesting find.


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The murder conviction of a man who was held in solitary confinement for 36 years has been officially overturned, following a lengthy legal back and forth between Louisiana prosecutors and defense attorneys.
District Court Judge James Brady entered his final judgment in the case yesterday, granting 61-year-old Albert Woodfox habeas corpus relief, after attorneys for Woodfox argued that prosecutors did not turn over potentially exculpatory evidence about a lead witness and that his former lawyer made mistakes at his trial. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a mechanism through which a person can seek relief from unlawful detention, and is often used when all other appeals have failed.
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Judge Brady issued his opinion overturning the conviction in July, which the state of Louisiana then appealed. This most recent judgment considered the state's appeal but ultimately rejected it, although the case is not over yet. The state now has 30 days to decide to retry Woodfox or dismiss the charges, while attorneys for Woodfox are calling on the state to drop any further actions.
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Concerning the call to release Woodfox, Caldwell said, "I oppose letting him out with every fiber of my being because this is a very dangerous man."
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The case attracted attention after Woodfox became known as one of the 'Angola Three' for being segregated for over three decades at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who was convicted of murdering the same prison guard, were let out of solitary confinement in March. Wallace is currently appealing his murder conviction, while the third Angola Three member, Robert King, was released in 2001.


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Allen Ginsberg came out of the closet in a big way. Publishing his sexuality for all to read and speaking quite frankly about his loves and lovers, he startled the world.
I am a student who sits in the back row of the classroom. My voice is not always audible, and my confidence is not always visible, or even existent. Ginsberg is an inspiration to me because his speech was loud, it was proud, and it was raw.
Ginsberg wrote and performed obscene odes that could have gotten someone "expelled from the academy for crazy" (Howl And Other Poems, 1956). I like to think this was autobiographical writing. He was a man, a gay man, before his time. He told truths that others were too afraid to say. He sang lyrics that ears were not prepared to hear. But Ginsberg pushed those people out of their comfort zones, and into a new generation: The Beat Generation. I idolize his courage and strong sense of self. I am someone whose sexuality and gender identity is fluid and contrary to society's expectations. Ginsberg was courageous enough to squash these expectations, as I hope to one day do.
When I first began to read Howl, my favorite work of his, I found myself entranced by his words. I immediately wanted to be him. I wanted his bravery, his courage, his heart, and his literary genius. In fact, I wanted the entirety of his genius. That is why dream of going to New York one day, and maybe even Columbia. For me to even get to trace the steps of legends like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac would make me feel ten feet tall.


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After the overly stressful day I had in cyberspace and in real life, I did not feel like cooking on Thursday. So, I ordered Chipotle for my husband and Noodles and Co. for myself. Noodles was great, as usual. Here's the email I ended up sending to Chipotle regarding my experience there...
I am extremely disappointed in the service I received at the Algonquin store this evening. My husband and I adore your burritos and chips and salsa, but after tonight's events, I may have to rethink my preferences. I placed an order online for pickup at 5:25 pm. I arrived at the store at 5:27 pm (according to my watch). When I arrived, I went to the register and asked for my order. The cashier looked to the wall where the tickets were posted and called for another employee while they hurriedly made my order. When they bagged my food, they tried to ring up the order when I informed them that I had already paid when I ordered online.
I then asked for the extra salsa that I had requested in the order and asked why the order wasn't ready when I arrived. They gave the excuse that they like to have it fresh and hot. While I appreciate their concern for the quality of the food, I informed them that the point of ordering ahead is for the food to be ready when the customer arrives. If I was concerned about how hot my food was, I would order it when I arrived at the store. I asked to speak with the manager. When the manager came out, he apologized but gave the same excuse about having the food hot and fresh. At this point, I had to ask twice more for my extra salsa.
When they finally gave it to me, I left. When I arrived home and started to eat my chips and salsa. I noticed that the salsa tasted as though the tomatoes were rotten! This has to have been the worst experience I have ever had in one of your stores and I think it will be a long time before I set foot in it again. I work too hard for my money to throw it away on rotten food and terrible service.
Here's their reply... Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. I am sorry that your online order with our Algonquin restaurant on Thursday was not ready for you at the specified time. Online ordering is a convenient option designed for customers who would rather bypass the wait in line. Therefore, you should never have to wait for your order to be made upon arrival. I can also imagine your frustration with having our team make excuses for your order not being ready on time, along with having to request several times for your salsa.
Additionally, our salsa should never taste rotten, as it is make fresh, twice daily. I will communicate these issues with the folks who oversee this location and make sure that our online orders are being completed by the designated time and that we are serving simply the freshest ingredients.
I would like redeem your order by sending you a couple free burrito cards and a free chip & guac card (good for salsa too). Simply send me your mailing address and I will get those out to you shortly. Rest assured, your feedback and satisfaction is important to us, and your next order will be top-notch! Thanks for your patience.
See? That's how customer service is supposed to be! Some of the businesses we complain about here should take note.
***Update 9/11/10***: Chipotle has not send me the promised cards. See my next review with this company.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA -- I stopped by today to grab lunch to go before work, and ordered my usual steak burrito minus rice and beans. Keep in mind this is not my first time visiting Chipotle. Today the girl making my burrito put an insanely small amount of steak on my burrito. I asked her if the portions got smaller. She said "No, it looks like less because there's no rice and beans on it". That was the silliest thing I've ever heard because I order the same thing all the time and this was the first time out of all my visits I could actually count the pieces of steak. Anyway I asked how much it would be for extra steak and she said 2.75!!!
I said, "No, thank you." and almost thought about cancelling the whole order but there were people behind me. The gentleman behind me even had to ask for more beans on his burrito bowl so it wasn't just my imagination that the portions were being rationed more than usual. I guess I am complaining because when a burrito is 6.00, you would expect a decent size amount of meat. I will go to another location in Jax and compare and if it's still a half scoop of meat I'll just go to Taco Bell from now on.
UPDATE: I received a very nice email from corporate regarding this experience. It is as follows: Thank you for writing to us. I'm sorry we skimped on the amount of steak we added to your burrito the other day. We have not, as a company, instructed our servers to reduce portion sizes so we'll contact our Orange Park restaurant to ensure they're offering the appropriate portions.
For your troubles, we'd like to cover your next meal with us. If you reply with your mailing address, I'll send out one of our burrito bucks (good for any of our meals). I'm confident, the next time you dine with us, your meal will be hearty and delicious. We look forward to serving you again soon!
I was very happy that they took the time to reply to me. A lot of these emails to companies go unanswered. I haven't had the chance to go back to Chipotle yet, but I will soon and will do another review regarding the portions.
ALL ARE WITHOUT -- Why aren't there any changing tables in any of your restaurant locations? That is really not "mommy friendly". Picture this, I have my nine month old son with me and I am almost through my delicious meal at Chipotle when all of a sudden my son has dirtied his diaper. I would think to myself, "I'm sure they have a changing table, everyone nowadays has one in their facilities... why wouldn't they, a multi million dollar company can surely afford a changing table right?" Well to my surprise NO, there is nothing. I have to resort to sitting on the toilet, put my son on my lap laying down and try to change his poopy diaper as quickly and cleanly as possible.
Now you give that a shot and see how fun that is! As I did some research, I found out that the Founder, Ceo and Co-Ceo are all males, maybe that has something to do with the fact that it never even crossed anyone's mind to add changing tables in the restrooms. You know what the saddest part of this story is? Well before I had my son, it never even dawn on me that you did not have them in you restaurant. Now that I would need them it has become as obvious as day, and it is not pleasant to change your child in that such way.
I absolutely love Chipotle; my family and I eat there about four times a month, if not more. I would hate to have to stop eating there over a silly little issue that can be resolved in a matter of days, and I am sure there are many mothers (and fathers) out there that feel the same way I do. Please add changing tables to your bathrooms, why would you not? Wal-mart has them, McDonald's has them every restaurant has them... so tell me, why would you not?
LAKE FOREST BETWEEN ROCKFIELD AND EL TORO, CALIFORNIA -- I have been a fan of Chipotle ever since I discovered them back several years ago. I used to eat there at least once per week for lunch. What caught my attention was the taste and size of portions. It was a bit pricey, but I thought that the size and taste compensated for the price. About six months ago I started noticing how the portions of the rice and beef where getting smaller and smaller. I talked it over with couple of my coworkers and they all agreed to my finding.
So, I knew it wasn't me over reacting. Today 12-26-13 after not trying Chipotle for over 6 months I decided to give it another chance. To my surprise, the portions were smaller than before. I guess I should have been thankful for experiencing large portions at one point in this restaurant.
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- On 6/6/12 at around 2:30 pm I purchased a burrito bowl. When I got home I lifted the bag and there is a stain that made me think I spilled the bag. I looked and the bag had been upright along with the product. There were no signs of spilling over the top either or around the edge of the bowl. What I did notice was the bottom of the bowl was leaking. I took it back and asked for the store manager his name was **. He inspected it said it doesn't happen a lot but it looks like I got a defective bowl. I explained it leaked on my car seat cover and asked what they would do about it. He looked confused. I asked about getting it spot cleaned and being repaid the cost.
He said he would need the GM to authorize that, he couldn't. I asked how I would get ahold of him and ** went and got ** who also admitted the bowl looked defective as it had no damage or obvious holes but was leaking and soggy. He said he could replace the bowl as there are health issues with serving it like that but he could do nothing about the car. I asked his name and the other guys name so I could take this further and he handed me his card then walked away without saying anything. He didn't even care enough to look at the seat or that we were really talking about a few dollars to spot clean the seat and I would be fronting the cost.
MEDINA, OHIO -- The employees were just rude to me. I felt like I wasn't welcome there. Also, I felt like half of them smelled like alcohol and drugs. I don't know if the managers are okaying them to do so, but I feel like that's against the law and company policies. I would like this place to be invested or shut down. I will never return back to this company again until I know that the managers and employees are clean. Also, I overheard one of the employees talking about doing drugs at the work place. I cannot believe the manager was allowing them to talk about it at a work place.
On 12/08/10, I ate at the Chipotle in Oak Brook, IL on 22nd St. I asked to speak with the manager. She was a very short (4'11" Hispanic woman). I am a vegetarian and wanted guacamole tacos. In the past, when I have asked for guacamole tacos, I have ended up with very soggy tomato tacos with a garnish of guacamole. That wasn't what I wanted. I wanted guacamole tacos. So, I told her what I wanted. I wanted an order of tacos. That isn't what she charged me for (unbeknownst to me at the time). She charged me for two tacos, when I expected to get three. At no time did I tell her I wanted to buy my tacos individually.
I was charged $2.20 per taco + $1.80 for guacamole (for a total of $6.71 with tax). The guacamole was the main ingredient for my vegetarian tacos. It was not like I was asking for extra garnish. When someone buys meat tacos you do not charge extra for the meat. When I left I was starving and had to go eat lunch someplace else. Also, the parking spots in the parking spots only left about 14" in between cars. If I lived close to that location, I wouldn't go there anyway, because the chances of your car getting dinged are extremely high. How is a vegetarian supposed to get what they order and not be overcharged?
ALGONQUIN, ILLINOIS -- So, three weeks ago I posted a compliment for the restaurant about a negative experience and their positive response. Here it is three weeks later and I'm still waiting for them to come through with their promised gift cards. I waited two weeks before responding to corporate about the lack of cards. The following day (this past Monday), the manager of the store in question called me and was falling all over himself in apologizes about the poor service and he promised to send me the aforementioned gift cards.
I gave him my address and waited patently to no avail. Even with the holiday, the absolute latest the cards should have arrived in my mailbox was yesterday or today. While I am not specifically angling to get free food, the service was poor and they have promised to make good. I'm just trying to get them to hold up their end of the bargain.
Although I never received a word from Chipotle corporate, I did receive the promised gift cards in the mail this afternoon. No apology for taking so long, but I'm sure that my complaint on Saturday had something to do with me getting what was promised to me 8 days after I spoke with the manager and over 3 weeks after I was contacted by corporate.
MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA -- I went to the Ridgedale MN. Chipotle tonight though this applies to all my visits in town they ask you what you want on your selection and when it comes to the cheese they put the smallest amount possible on them. I repeatedly ask them to put on more cheese. When my second selection came around I told him to put on the same ingredients on this selection too he then attempted the cheapskate cheese portion again. are they bringing the extra cheese home at night? I would rather have more cheese than all the meat which would balance the flavor. I looked at there website but found no place for reviews. Love the food !
ALGONQUIN, IL -- My husband and I LOVE Chipotle burritos. We also love the chips and salsa. I could eat the salsa by itself. My only complaint is that while they give you a good-sized bag of chips, they only give you a little cup with maybe 3 tablespoons of salsa in it. That's nowhere close to being enough for two people when they're enjoying the chips. usually I get a little salsa on a couple of chips, then my husband polishes off what's left of the salsa (maybe a tablespoon or two), leaving me with just plain chips. As I said before; awesome salsa, there just needs to be more of it.


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The 25-year-old Israeli supermodel also stopped by the Giuseppe Zanotti boutique to check out some heels.
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Like The Pencil, Henry Petroski's The Toothpick is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book. Here is the unexpected story of the simplest of implements—whether made of grass, gold, quill, or wood—a story of engineering and design, of culture and class, and a lesson in how to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Petroski takes us back to ancient Rome, where the emperor Nero makes his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth; and to a more recent time in Spain, where a young señorita uses the delicately pointed instrument to protect her virtue from someone trying to steal a kiss. He introduces us to Charles Forster, a nineteenth-century Bostonian and father of the American toothpick industry, who hires Harvard students to demand toothpicks in area restaurants—thereby making their availability in eating establishments as expected as condiments.
And Petroski takes us inside the surprisingly secretive toothpick-manufacturing industry, in which one small town's factories can turn out 200 million wooden toothpicks a day using methods that, except for computer controls, haven't changed much in almost 150 years. He also explores a treasure trove of the toothpick's unintended uses and perils, from sandwiches to martinis and beyond.
With an engineer's eye for detail and a poet's flair for language, Petroski has earned his reputation as a writer who explains our world—from the tallest buildings to the lowliest toothpick—to us.
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Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of more than a dozen books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose–from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box–there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded.
Such simplicity of design and use might lead one to expect an equally simple and straightforward history, one easily researched and explicated by a student doing a term paper. In the twenty-first century, such a student would very likely navigate around the World Wide Web via Google or some other digital search engine and come up with enough snippets to stitch together a plausible story–as long as the sources were unquestioned, the gaps glossed over, and the contradictions ignored. Of the quotations rustled up from the Web and corralled at the beginning of this book, every one but the statement about generating power from wood waste is at best a half-truth.
In fact, the full and true story of something even so simple as the toothpick cannot easily be gleaned from the Internet alone. Unfortunately, more traditional sources of information and scholarship, such as manuscripts, articles, books, and other written materials in archives and analog libraries, also often provide sparse, erroneous, and contradictory information for topics considered too banal for and thus neglected by scholars seeking to pursue grander things and themes.
The very simplicity and banality of the thing made the toothpick and its manufacture an artifact of tacit knowledge and trade secrets. Even in the late twentieth century, Japanese visitors who showed up at a Maine toothpick factory were turned away, lest they see the tricks of the trade. An American scholar, who should hardly have been seen as a potential competitor, was similarly denied entrance to a Minnesota counterpart. He had to go to Sweden to see some toothpicks being made.
Secrecy coupled with a dearth of reliable, confirmable documentary material makes the task of uncovering the real story of a common object a challenge for ordinary scholarship relying on the usual scholarly sources. But there are other sources of information, not least of which is the artifact itself and the documented social and cultural context in which it has been made and used. Much of the story of the toothpick must be coaxed out of the thing itself and its milieu. With patience, slivers of it can be teased out of even a closed box of toothpicks the way a stubborn seed eventually can be dislodged from between the teeth. Insights into the use and misuse of things can be gleaned from both the froth and the detritus of society.
Whatever its history, the toothpick-manufacturing process has become so automated and efficient that no human hand touches the product until it is taken up to be used. An antiseptic toothpick costs but a fraction of a fraction of a cent, and it can be tossed away after a single use. Since it is made of untreated wood, the biodegradable toothpick presents no substantial danger to the environment. At first glance, it seems not easily implicated in global warming–until we remember that trees have been sacrificed for and energy consumed in its production.
But as neglected, small, insignificant, and inconsequential as the artifact might seem to be, the story of the toothpick holds great potential for revealing often hidden and frequently overlooked relationships among the people and things of the world. As Archimedes asserted that, if he were given a long enough lever and a place on which to stand, he could move the earth, so we can imagine that, given a toothpick and a sense of its place in history, we can nudge our understanding of technology and culture a bit farther.
Since the toothpick is a technological and cultural artifact, its use and significance are determined by its producers and consumers as they have over time been embedded in the life of business and the business of life. Individuals can develop a dependency on toothpicks, a preference for certain shapes and sizes, and a set of habits and rituals surrounding their use. Society, ever subject to the fads and fashions that it itself creates, imposes changing expectations on the availability of toothpicks and on the manner and acceptability of their use. Different classes of people, being attuned to different social rhythms and cultural clocks, develop different relationships with toothpicks. This is naturally part of the story.
Because common things so easily transcend limits of time and place, their story is not readily confined to a single period or to a single culture. The history of the toothpick is as old as mankind and as universal as eating. Its story knows no disciplinary bounds, and it is revealed in the records of anthropology as surely as in the annals of etiquette. It is an international story, with chapters set in prehistoric Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Portugal, and modern Brazil, China, Japan, Sweden, and the United States, to name but a few of its backdrops. The story of the toothpick is the story of Everyone and Everything at Everytime.
Things get their names and reputations from people, and it is people who also dictate how things are spoken of and used. As much as its name defines a single intended purpose, the toothpick has been adapted to countless other uses. Like any tool or device, the toothpick has been called into service when something else was not available or suitable to the task at hand. This, too, is part of the story of the thing, as is its propensity to spawn an infrastructure of boxes, cases, dispensers, holders, and other contraptions that can be as extraordinarily diverse and complex as the one-part machine that they support is simple.
To an engineer, the challenge of mass-producing something like a toothpick with sufficient efficiency that it can be sold at a profit holds a special fascination. The origins and rise of the mechanized toothpick industry in the latter half of the nineteenth century make for a fascinating chapter in the history of manufacturing, as do the human stories of inventors and innovators such as Benjamin Franklin Sturtevant and Charles Forster, along with their inventions, their patents and patent rights, and their struggles through failures on their way to achieving successes. It is in this chapter of the story that the history of the modest toothpick assumes heroic proportions and provides especially poignant lessons for the technological enterprises of today and tomorrow.
Chapter One: The Oldest Habit
Nothing can be more annoying than having a piece of food stuck between our teeth. As tiny as it might really be, in time it can seem to grow out of all proportion to its place in the mouth. As the pea under the princess's mattress prevented her from enjoying a night's sleep, so a tiny seed between molars can deny the diner much-anticipated postprandial peace and satisfaction. Like a grain of sand between two millstones, the foreign matter grates on us until it is worked free.
We have all devised our own preferred methods for dealing with the problem, but when we are not alone some of us may be constrained by social strictures to work within a closed mouth. Our tongue is often the instrument of choice, but the tongue's soft, blunt tip is usually ineffective. We have to flex and strain the muscles that harden and point it, and the process can be excruciatingly trying, tiring, and not really so private or inconspicuous as we might wish.
When wooden matches were commonly found near the kitchen stove, they were convenient to be split or whittled into toothpicks. One uninhibited character in a 1920s novel entered a shop "still helping the breadcrust out of his teeth . . . with his tongue," supplemented by a split matchstick, which was a sure giveaway of his plight.[1] However, even without opening our mouth to use a pointed tool, whenever we proceed to drag the tongue across and thrust it between our teeth at a repast's tenacious residue, we reveal our mission by the bulge moving around our lips and cheeks like a mole beneath the lawn.
Sucking at the stuck debris can sometimes be effective, but not always easily for stubborn little things. It takes more than eight pages in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, involving "sucking at a crevice in his teeth," among other efforts, for the character Cranly to dislodge fig seeds.[2] We can also try squirting saliva between the teeth to flush out some unfriendly food debris. However, like vacuuming a rug or washing windows with a water hose, such actions can be noisy. The overzealous tooth sucker whose lips slip apart can sound like a wet kisser bussing the air, the too-eager spit squisher like someone squeezing a wet sponge.
The finger can be an effective lever to move what will not otherwise budge, but in many circles its use points to the defeat of other means. Besides, like the tongue, the finger is usually too blunt an instrument for the task at hand, and some people have been known to "grow a long finger nail especially for picking teeth."[3] Sometimes, even an ordinary fingernail can be enlisted successfully, but implementing it as a solution can seldom be done with grace.
The most common alternative to natural and self-contained means is, of course, the familiar wooden toothpick. Where social strictures do not censure its use, the toothpick can be a most effective tool to succeed where tongue and fingers fail. As all tools are extensions of our bodies and their extremities, so the toothpick is an extension of the finger. It allows us to reach into the back of our mouth more easily and effectively, a need that has existed coevally with the need for food itself. Indeed, it has been suggested that "...
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Avocados: can you do any wrong? The answer is, of course, no. Even when blended-up with sweetened condensed milk and ice, you are God's gift to our mouths. At first, I was a bit nervous. Through a straw? Avocados and I had only met with forks, tortilla chips (many of those) and bread involved. But it was time to take our relationship one step further.
This $4 avocado shake (called a smoothie on the menu, maybe to sound healthier?) came from the Asia Express cart in Portland at SW 3rd Street between Washington and Stark (map). Mai, the merry lady behind the window, started the cart about a year ago after working at a hair and nail salon. Her cart joins many others in the pod which sell everything from tacos to oatmeal.
After I pointed to the menu sign—which for some reason had a Granny Smith next to the avocado shake image, hmm—Mai went to her blender in the back of the cart and started avocado shake-ifying. One avocado (with all its flesh carved out), a heavy pour of sweetened condensed milk, and lots of ice. Bzzzzzzz.
Unfortunately, it wasn't very drinkable at first. No, it was delicious. That wasn't the problem. But the dinky straw—made for fountain drinks not wet cement-thick shakes—was completely ineffective. Fruitless, you might even say.* Robyn and I worked very hard to achieve that first sip, but this job really required one of those wide-mouthed bubble tea straws, or just a lid-less side-sipping technique.
* Ha, fruit pun.
Once it warmed up and got melty, the avocado fattiness could be fully appreciated (and the shake was actually drinkable—always a plus). Drinking it was kind of like eating olive oil gelato for the first time. Cold and creamy, unctuous and full-bodied, yet still icy and refreshing.
As great as it was, this shake was really hard to finish. We sipped and sipped, for what seemed like 52 sips, and barely make a dent. It's still thick even after meltification, and the richness creeps up on you. We threw out half a cup's worth because avocado shake depletion just wasn't happening.
Avocado shakes are popular in Vietnamese cuisine, and known as sinh to bo. Sometimes they're sweetened with coconut milk or extra sugar syrup. But thankfully, Mai didn't zap out the natural 'cado taste with too much sweetness. You could really taste the tender avocado meat that sits close to the scaly skin. Your mouth realizes it's the same stuff that goes into guacamole, but it takes on an entirely new, velvety character.
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Long, long ago (let's say 350 AD) there lived a Chinese princess who had reached an age at which it was expected she would be married. Now as was the custom of those times and that place, her parents had made a fine match for her when she was not more than a girl, promising her to a Prince of Khotan. The princess was much pleased by this for she was told by all that it was good match, the prince was a handsome and charming man, Khotan was a fine city, and truth be told, she was rather looking forward to the adventure of living in a new land.
There was one thing, however, that troubled her. For though the prince was rich and Khotan was a worldly place filled with all the luxuries to which the princess was accustomed, there was one thing that was not to be found there at any price: silk. And silk was something a princess could not live without. She was a virtuous girl, but put perhaps too much value on her looks and her wardrobe and the thought of living without such a thing of beauty filled her with sadness.
The making of silk you see, was a secret known only to the people of China. Only the daughters, mothers and grandmothers of the land knew how to properly feed and tend to the silkworms so that they would produce the finest of fibers, and only they knew how to spin, weave, and dye it into a fabric. The women had learned all this from the Empress Lzi-tu, (you can read her story here) and the secret had been kept close for some 3,000 years. The punishment for anyone who revealed the secrets of silk-making—or worse still—smuggle silkworm cocoons out of China, was death.
The princess knew all this, but as her wedding day drew closer and closer, she realized she could not do without this wondrous fiber and decided that she would bring the secrets of silk-making with her to her new home. One night when all were asleep, she slipped into the palace courtyard and carefully gathered a bundle of seedpods and leaves (with the precious silkworm eggs firmly attached) from the mulberry trees that grew there. Returning to her room, she hid these treasures in the elaborate headdress that she would wear on the procession to her new home.
When morning came she dressed in all her finery and rode out to meet her new husband, all the while hiding the wealth of an empire in the voluminous folds of her wedding headdress, and no one was the wiser. It wasn't until many months later that she shared the secret with her husband, showing him the now fully-formed cocoons that she had been so carefully tending. Her husband was delighted with her cleverness and, just as Lei-tzu and had done centuries before, they set up silk making in Khotan, turning a tidy profit as they did so.


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As I drive into New Orleans on the West Bank Expressway, the bruised-looking Superdome is on my left, and an abandoned, 10-foot boat sits on the shoulder to my right. Straight ahead is a phalanx of guys in fatigues. They're pointing the kinds of guns that could put a Dodge Stratus-sized hole in my Dodge Stratus. I hold up the plastic card that says I'm a writer, and they let me go. Seconds later, I'm driving over the Mississippi River on the Crescent City Connection Bridge and headed into the city.
In the two days I've been in Louisiana, I've heard enough Katrina horror stories that I'm afraid to look at water. A friend from high school waited for a week for the levels to recede enough so he could open his door and find a neighbor with a working cell phone. A seventysomething relative of a friend swam in the murky water thinking he was about to drown only to cling to a tree and eventually climb to his roof. That all happened in wet New Orleans: the Lakefront, Mid-City, and pretty much everywhere else that isn't within spitting distance of the high ground near the river. On my first day in the city, I start in the small, sheltered enclave of dry New Orleans, the arid streets between the river and St. Charles Avenue.
Cruising up and down St. Charles—the wide, mansion-filled avenue where the streetcar runs—has always been a good way to get myself reoriented to the city after being away. It's still a good place to start—as I drive toward Uptown, the damage isn't as severe as it could be, but there's enough flotsam around to steel me for the waterlogged areas. On St. Charles, sagging power lines arc just eight feet off the ground, and downed tree limbs clog the sidewalks. The road is dry as a bone, if a bit crunchy. When I get out and walk, the tiny twigs that cover the ground crack under my feet like potato chips. The weirdest sight, though, is all the Mardi Gras beads lying in the middle of the road, shaken loose from the branches that once caught and held wayward throws 50 feet off the ground.
Reports of fires in the Garden District have been all over the news, but on my abbreviated tour of the area's fancy houses I don't see any with significant structural damage. Many of the three-story private homes do carry distress signals, though. Among the hastily painted warnings on fences, walls, and gates: "GO IN AND DIE," "LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT," or the more curt "LOOTERS SHOT."
Looting may have been rampant a few days ago, but I've never felt safer in New Orleans than I do driving around today. Such are the benefits of an occupying force. High-riding military vehicles and gun-toting troops blanket every block. Every so often, someone asks me to roll down the window and show ID before waving me on, but the soldiers mostly look like they're killing time. Sitting on milk crates and folding chairs in the middle of the road. Sitting on the steps in front of Bultman Funeral Home. On Carrollton Avenue, a forklift sticks out from the front of a drugstore where a group of enterprising scofflaws used it to peel back the steel security door. For the soldiers standing guard, the novelty has long since worn off. I ask one of them what they talk about to make the days go faster. "Each other's mothers, mostly," he says.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the authorities in New Orleans have started telling the city's few remaining residents—even those who live on dry streets and have enough gas to run their generators for months—to evacuate or else. I don't see any conversations like that, but all the folks I run into on the street (primarily white homeowners, one or two a block in the most populated areas) tell me they're not getting off their land, no way, no how. (OK, not everyone. One ponytailed guy in bedroom slippers tells me he has to skip town immediately because the city has completely run out of weed.)
A few blocks off St. Charles in the Garden District, a woman named Suzie Lyons leads a petting-zoo-sized convoy of small animals up Seventh Street. Lyons says she's broken into at least 30 houses at the owners' behest—kicking down doors, breaking glass, finding hide-a-keys—to feed and rescue dogs and cats that owners left behind in their rush to evacuate. "Can you imagine if they die in their houses—how that would smell?" she asks.
Mixed in with the people who won't leave are a few who sneaked back in, mandatory evacuation be damned. When I see a guy wearing scrubs, I roll down my window to ask what hospital he works at. Turns out he's not a doctor—a dentist friend of his gave him scrubs so he could sneak past the security detail.
On Napoleon a few blocks north of the bar Tipitina's, I find a normal New Orleans scene: five guys, several shirtless, drinking cold beers on the porch. In the shade next to the neighbor's house, there are enough bottles of liquor and mixers—Maker's Mark, Crown Royal, pineapple juice, Dr. Pepper—to keep the party going for at least a few more days.
Kirby Gee, who owns the house, works as a bartender at Miss Mae's down the street. He says the bar did pretty good business even through last Wednesday—the cops kept them in shotgun shells as long as they kept pouring drinks. Gee says the police taught everyone around here how to loot. They were the first to bust into the grocery store down the street and the Wal-Mart a mile or so up the road. He also says they took to breaking into car lots in the days after the storm and driving off with brand-new Escalades. I'm not sure whether to believe him, until a cop car drives buy towing what looks like a mint-condition Corvette Stingray. "And these are the people telling us to evacuate," says one of the porch dwellers. Every time a Humvee rolls by, a few of the guys make sure to flash the peace sign.
Driving toward the river on Magazine Street, I see Audubon Park on my left and pull into the parking lot. A guy driving a motorized cart and smoking a pipe passes by, and I ask him if I can hop on and ride around with him. Don Meinert, who works maintaining the park's small golf course, says he's been living in the maintenance shed since his house got deluged by floodwater. The golf course looks like you could play on it tomorrow—in fact, Meinert says a couple of National Guard guys have played a few holes in the last couple of days.
The park is completely dry but there's lots of tree damage, mostly to younger, smaller trees. When we see one felled giant oak, Meinert stops the cart. "That was a good tree," he says. "I miss it, but it's gone, ain't nothing I can do about it." As we're winding back to the Magazine Street side, Meinert stops the cart again. "Don't tell me they did that," he says, looking toward a group of soldiers who've set up camp 100 yards away. He says it again, more loudly: "Don't tell me they did that." I'm assuming they chopped down a tree or something—there are a couple of big ones down in our field of vision. "They're flying the Texas flag," he says. "Ain't gonna let no other flag fly over this state."


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Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves
We're idiots, babe
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
– Bob Dylan
In their highly readable and informative book Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel, medieval scholars Frances and Joseph Gies recount how Europeans spent much of the 1,000 years between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance rebuilding their agrarian civilization. Despite centuries of invasions and disorder, they somehow managed to preserve enough of society's agricultural base to support the slow emergence of a prosperous civilization.
I thought about the struggles of those farmers as my wife and I prepared and planted our vegetable garden this spring. I thought of their primitive plows as I grabbed my spiffy electric rototiller to churn up our hard clay soil. I reflected on their total dependence on the resources at hand as we drove to the garden supply store to pick up some plastic bags filled with "organic" chicken manure, Chinese-made parts for our drip irrigation system and synthetic-leather work gloves.
Today, we rely on an exceedingly complex system to grow and process our food, whether it is home-grown or store-bought. That system is one of the great unsung achievements of modern civilization: Indeed, it has made modern civilization and our expanding global population possible.
But what if that system begins to break down? How could we feed ourselves if the technological marvel we call industrial agriculture proves unsustainable – if its very success disrupts the climate and depletes the soil and water upon which it depends? How could we garden without our trips to the store? If we had to, could we follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and learn how to survive centuries of disruption?
The breakdown is underway. Most states west of the Mississippi, including California, are blanketed by "severe," "extreme" or "exceptional" drought, while flooding has disrupted planting in much of the Midwest. "Dirty Thirties" dustbowl conditions have returned to Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and Kansas. Mountain glaciers and snowpacks are disappearing as massive aquifers are running dry. Topsoil is thinning everywhere, and fertilizer pollution of our waterways is an out-of-control "externality" of industrial farming.
Add these climate and resource problems to the peak of cheap, easy oil production we passed a year or two ago, and we can see that our entire agricultural system is vulnerable to natural and human-made shocks – and perhaps rapid implosion.
What can we do to avert a food crisis? The agricultural system is in the early stages of a downward, accelerating spiral precisely because of the paths it has taken to record productivity and prosperity: overcentralization, vast monocultural enterprises and externalized environmental costs. These trends are likely to grow because they are profitable – albeit in a bubble agro-economy primed to burst.
If the system is to adapt successfully – rather than collapsing and having to be rebuilt as it was during the Middle Ages – it will have to be changed from the periphery. The antidote to centralization and monoculture is to diversify food sources – we need more small to mid-sized farms (pooling their resources as needed), and many more home gardens.
The Victory Garden system, implemented quickly by the British and U.S. governments to alleviate shortages during World Wars I and II, proved that a substantial amount of food – about 40 percent of all vegetables – can be grown in backyards and community gardens. But you don't have to wait on Washington's waking up to the developing food crisis to prepare for it at home.
The first step is to save knowledge – human knowledge of appropriate agricultural technology, and nature's "knowledge" that diversity is the key to adaptation. Compared with our medieval predecessors, our human knowledge base is tremendous. We have records rather than traditions and science rather than folklore, to inform us.
But as we are learning, that knowledge does not necessarily translate into sustainable agricultural practice. And nature's knowledge – stored in its diverse seeds – is threatened by monocultural practices.
But you can change that system by gathering and sharing knowledge of sustainable food production, growing a wide variety of heirloom vegetables that monocultural corporate farms find unprofitable, conserving water, building soil and learning how to store food without relying completely on your freezer.
We'll explore these practices in upcoming columns, because sustainable gardening and farming could be a lifesaver at your ecological house.
Philip S. Wenz, who grew up in Durango and Boulder, now lives in Corvallis, Ore., where he teaches and writes about environmental issues. Reach him via e-mail through his website, www.your-ecological-house.com.


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During the late 20th century there was tremendous controversy over "cults". While US culture was in upheaval, people grew concerned over the role of marginal religious groups, particularly those that were controlled by powerful leaders and whose practitioners' sexual practices deviated from the norm. In this context, some scholars became alarmed at what they considered to be coercive persuasion techniques used by those groups. In one case, some psychologists wrote a report, known as DIMPAC, warning against such groups. In an unusual move, however, the American Psychological Association rejected the report, saying that the theories did not meet the necessary standards. There is much more to the story, of course, but rather than write about it here, I refer you to several resources.
As you might guess, the controversy was not limited to the American Psychological Association. The following resolution was approved by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion during its November 1990 meeting. It was printed in the December 1990 copy of the SSSR Newsletter.
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Live in Sofia, Bulgaria
on 25 June 2017
at Club Live & Loud
8, Pozitano Str., Sofia, Bulgaria
Heavy Canadian Technical Death Metal with BEYOND CREATION in Sofia in June!
Canada, prog/tech death metal and Season of Mist. Which band do you first think of when you hear this? We'd immediately think of Beyond Creation, a band we like and we'll be happy to give stage to on June 25 at Live & Loud.
Beyond Creation are both young and ambitious. With their first full-length album "The Aura" (2011) they asked for the future as a serious band that would not spare time or energy to get better and better and to develop what it hinted at in theit 2010 demo. In 2014, already noticed by the French prestigious label Season of Mist with whom they signed at that time, BC released their second CD, Earthborn Evolution (2014).
Now the band (composed by Simon Girard – vocals, guitars, Kevin Chartré – back vocals, guitars, Hugo Doyon-Karout – bass and Philippe Boucher – drums) focuses on the performance of their music live. At their show in Sofia, you'll see that they play prog/tech death metal just as it should be played, professionally and with truly enviable class.
Multi-layered compositions, subtle shifts in pace, and other catches are part of what will make you dwell during their show and leave the analyzes of when hot water was discovered or how you do not like this or that type of guitar solos for some other time.
Each tour also needs a support band, and Beyond Creation have chosen Virvum from Switzerland for their upcoming tour. The band will present their debut album "Illuminance" that came out last year. The guys set up the band in 2007, they stalked for 9 years and in 2016, they struck with material they worked on from 2014 to 2016, released in digital format. Their prog death has its spicy moments and outbursts for which the ear has to be prepared. We are sure you have it!
As a local support the young Bulgarian Tech Death Metal band from Sofia Rejuvenation are joining the show. Following the release of their first single in the end of 2015, the band has performed at various shows in the country. On 21 May 2017, they released their debut EP Chronology Protection Conjecture`s Negation that is distributed freely via the Internet.
The other Bulgarian band that will play at the concert is Fragments of Existence. Fragments Of Existence is a progressive/melodic death metal band formed in late 2012 by former members of the Thrash Metal Chains. The band gets its influences from classics such as Death, Control Denied, Evergrey, Opeth, Cynic, Dream Theater and many others. Since its establishment, the quartet has devoted itself to writing original material and intense club activity. When the world saw the singles Sands Of Time, Aftermath and Out Of Darkness, at the beginning of 2017, the band released their self-titled debut album, which is available in addition to physical media via download and streaming platforms such as Bandcamp, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer.
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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker will appear before a Maryville, Mo., judge Thursday and is expected to offer a status report on her investigation of a sexual assault case there.
Nodaway County Associate Circuit Judge Glen Dietrich appointed Baker as special prosecutor in October amid an international furor over the decision by the prosecutor there to drop the charges.
Daisy Coleman says she was sexually assaulted in January 2012, at age 14, by a high school senior in Maryville. Felony charges against two suspects were filed in the case but later dropped by Nodaway County Prosecutor Robert L. Rice. A misdemeanor charge also was dropped eventually.
The girl's mother, Melinda Coleman, said political favoritism played a role in the decision to drop the charges, an accusation Rice has repeatedly denied.
Rice said he dropped the case because of a lack of evidence and cooperation on the part of the Colemans. Melinda Coleman said she stopped cooperating only after the felony charges were dropped.
Rice is a Republican. One of the alleged assault suspects, Matthew Barnett, is the grandson of a once-prominent Nodaway County Republican state legislator. The teen said the sex with Daisy was consensual.
Baker is a Democrat, as is the judge who appointed her.
At an Oct. 21 press conference announcing that she had accepted the special prosecutor appointment, Baker pledged to review the case "without fear and without favor." She declined to answer questions during the session with reporters and begged the community for patience as she conducted her inquiry.
Since then, her office has declined to discuss the case or even hint at its progress.
The hearing notice, emailed to reporters Wednesday, did not say what would be discussed at the session but noted that "a press conference following the hearing is anticipated."
Daisy Coleman, now 16, was hospitalized in Kansas City earlier this week after a suicide attempt, a family friend told The Star. Robin Bourland said Daisy ingested pills Sunday evening in an incident that stemmed from online harassment.


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